Ideal Gas Equation: Pressure not Proportional to Moles

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how is pressure not proportional to the number of moles?
 
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how is pressure not proportional to the number of moles?
Who says it's not?
 
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Young and Freedman page 591-592 in the ideal gas equation section. The author does not seem to include the relationship between the number of moles and pressure.
 
But... PV=nRT... So P is proportional to n, if you keep everything else stable...
 

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